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Jonathan Bergers installation, "An Introduction to Nameless Love, 2019, with text created in tin, exploring the experiences of non-romantic love, in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, March 29, 2022. The latest Whitney Biennial is a somber, adult-thinking exhibition, the New York Times art critic Holland Cotter writes. Charlie Rubin/The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK, NY.- After a years COVID delay, the latest Whitney Biennial has pulled into town, and its a welcome sight. Other recent editions this is the 80th such roundup have tended to be buzzy, jumpy, youthquake affairs. This one even with many young artists among its 60-plus participants, most represented by brand-new, lockdown-made work doesnt read that way. Its a notably somber, adult-thinking show, one freighted with three years of soul-rattling history marked by social divisiveness, racist violence and relentless mortality. Organized by two seasoned Whitney curators, David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, the Biennials title, Quiet as Its Kept a colloquial phrase, sourced from Toni Morrison, indicating dark realities unspoken of suggests the shows keyed-down tone. Its very look gives a clue to its mood: Its main installation, on the fifth and sixth floors of the Whitney Museum of American Art, is literal ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Bernini and the Roman Baroque: Masterpieces from Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia is organized by Glocal Project Consulting and is toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC.
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| Bust from the Met Museum, said to be looted, is returned to Libya | | A tiny Brontë book, lost for a century, resurfaces | | A mural lionizing an Indian ruler is sold at auction. His legacy is contested. | 
Visitors at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, on March 6, 2022. City officials forecast a 70 percent increase in tourism in this year, including 8 million visitors from abroad. Sarah Blesener/The New York Times.
by Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK, NY.- Looters and vandals have for decades blighted Cyrene, a coastal city that was once a port of ancient Greece and is now a part of Libya. Two products of the pillaging, marble busts stolen from the citys famed burial grounds and recently seized by investigators, were returned to Libya on Wednesday by the Manhattan district attorneys office. The more significant of the two items, a mourning sculpture of a veiled womans head dating to 350 B.C., when the region was a Greek colony along the Mediterranean, had until February been on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Valued at about $470,000, officials said it had been seized from the Met in February after having been there since 1998. The Met declined to identify the donor, who had sought to remain anonymous. The ... More | | 
A miniature book made by the 13-year-old Charlotte Brontë, to go on sale next month for $1.25 million, contains what may be her last unknown poems.
by Jennifer Schuessler
NEW YORK, NY.- The miniature books created by Charlotte Brontë and her siblings as children have long been objects of fascination for fans and deep-pocketed collectors. Initially created to entertain their toy soldiers, the tiny volumes reflected the rich imaginary world they created in the isolation of the family home on the moors of northern England, which fed into novels like Charlottes Jane Eyre and Emilys Wuthering Heights. Now, the last of the more than two dozen created by Charlotte to remain in private hands has surfaced and will be coming up for sale next month. A Book of Rhymes, a 15-page volume smaller than a playing card, was last seen at auction in 1916 in New York, where it sold for $520 before disappearing, its whereabouts and even its survival unknown. It will be unveiled April 21, the opening night of the New York International Antiquarian Book ... More | | 
The battle scene depicts a victory over British troops by an 18th-century Muslim, a man Indias current government would prefer was forgotten. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- The mural shows Indian cavalry troops advancing from both sides on a cornered British army, guns blazing. In one part of the 18th-century battlefield, the victorious commander sits on an elephant holding a red rose. To a leading British historian of India, the roughly 32-foot-long masterpiece, which was sold at auction in London on Wednesday, is an artistic triumph and a potent symbol of Indian resistance to British imperialism. Its arguably the greatest Indian picture of the defeat of colonialism that survives, the scholar, William Dalrymple, told Sothebys, the auction house overseeing the sale. Its a unique and fantastic artwork. But in modern India, the commanders legacy is complicated. Politicians from Indias governing political party, which has increasingly embraced Hindu nationalist rhetoric under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have spent years downplaying his achievements. The commander, Tipu Sultan, was ... More |
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| Exhibition features fourty new drawings by leading American artist Richard Serra | | San Antonio Museum of Art acquires important works by pioneering American photographer Laura Aguilar | | Exhibition of new work by Willie Cole opens at Alexander and Bonin | 
Installation view Richard Serra. 40 Balls. Ph: Paolo Regis. Courtesy Cardi Gallery.
MILAN.- Cardi Gallery is presenting an exhibition featuring fourty new drawings by leading American artist Richard Serra. Widely known for his iconic large-scale, site-specific sculptures, Serra has developed a consistent drawing practice throughout his long career, producing works that are immediate and fundamental in their line of investigation and mark making. Operating intuitively within the constraints of established criteria, the artist has been using black paintstick (compressed oil paint, wax, and pigment) since 1971 as his medium of choice. While integral to the key concerns of time, materiality and process that characterize his sculptural practice, Serras drawings are not sketches, studies or precursors to the sculptures. They are works in their own right, each exuding a singular character and energy while defying any metaphorical or emotive associations. The exhibition project presented at Cardi Gallery was curated and ... More | | 
Laura Aguilar, Stillness #27, 1999. Gelatin silver print, edition 2/10, 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm) San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with The Brown Foundation Contemporary Art Acquisition Fund, 2022.2.4 Courtesy of the Laura Aguilar Trust of 2016 © Laura Aguilar.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art announced today that it has acquired seven photographs by pioneering American photographer Laura Aguilar. The works are drawn from three of Aguilars major series, including Clothed/Unclothed, Stillness, and Motion. Aguilars practice engaged with and challenged societal constructs relating to beauty, gender, sexuality, race, and class, shaping some of todays most critical art dialogues. She often leveraged her own experiences as queer, large-bodied, and Chicana to examine questions of identity and the ways it affects how we navigate and live in the world. Although she was immersed in the East Los Angeles Chicano art scene throughout the 1980s and 1990s and created an expansive body of work, Aguilars significant contributions to the ... More | | 
Joy 2021. Yamaha 3/4 size acoustic guitar parts, 44 1/2 x 22 x 7 1/2 in/113 x 55.9 x 19.1 cm. Courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York. Photo: Joerg Lohse.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander and Bonin announced No Strings, an exhibition of new work by Willie Cole which will open at 59 Wooster Street on April 1. Central to the exhibition are sculptures made from parts of musical instruments, in particular guitars, saxophones, and pianos. Yamaha invited Willie Cole to participate in the music companys recycling program in order to raise money for music education. The music department at the artists alma mater, Arts High in Newark, will benefit from the proceeds of the sales of works made for this exhibition. Willie Cole is well-known for his inventive transformations of found materials into sculptures that depict everything from domestic objects and animals to African artifacts and antebellum imagery. Cole expands on this idea: The objects that I use I see as them finding me, more ... More |
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| Mennello Museum of American Art presents Contemporary Expressions: Prints from Flying Horse Editions | | Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 'dissent collar' donated to the Smithsonian | | Museum show highlights media-makers on the autism spectrum | 
Carmon Colangelo, Green Jetty (recto), My O Land (verso), 2011. From the portfolio, O-Land-O: A suite of seven recto-verso prints letterpress, relief, digital, and color pencil on Kitakata. Edition: 16/25. City of Orlando Public Art Collection. © Carmon Colangelo.
ORLANDO, FLA.- Mennello Museum of American Art announces Contemporary Expressions: Prints from Flying Horse Editions (1996 2021). Curated by the City of Orlando's Public Art Collection, the exhibit holds the largest and most complete assemblage of works published by Flying Horse Editions, which is on view at Mennello Museum now through May 30, 2022. Were fortunate to have Flying Horse Editions, a world-class printing program at the University of Central Florida, our communitys renowned research institution, said Mennello Museum Executive Director Shannon Fitzgerald. Flying Horse Editions has attracted some of the most prominent artists working today in the role of visiting artists who have had the opportunity to create limited-edition master prints with exceptional printmakers in a state-of-the-art facility. Following the trajectory of the artists and their output ... More | | 
A photo by Jaclyn Nash, via the National Museum of American History, of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgs dissent collar, which she wore on days that she gave opinions at odds with the Supreme Courts majority. The collar plus three others, the judicial robe she wore most often and other items are being donated by her family to the Smithsonians National Museum of American History. Jaclyn Nash, via the National Museum of American History via The New York Times.
by Laura Zornosa
NEW YORK, NY.- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgs dissent collar the one she wore on days that she gave powerful and pointed opinions at odds with the Supreme Courts majority is being donated to the Smithsonians National Museum of American History. Three other distinctive collars, the judicial robe that she wore most often during her more than 25 years on the court and other items are also being donated by her family to coincide with the museums decision to award Ginsburg its signature honor, the Great Americans Medal. Ginsburg took pride in the utility of a well-argued dissent. Dissents speak to a future age, Ginsburg ... More | | 
From left, Jackson Tucker-Meyers film Satan Cured My Autism and Bryn Chaineys documentary The Father of Rodents.
NEW YORK, NY.- When his autistic son, Nate, was growing up, Josh Sapan used to take him to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens where the video game exhibitions helped Nate connect to the world. Those experiences inspired Sapan, a museum trustee, to help establish a program that would not only acknowledge the important role moving images can play in the lives of those on the autism spectrum, but would also highlight people on the spectrum who create those images. I was just thinking, wouldnt it be wonderful if there was some recognition for the work being done by people on the autistic spectrum? said Sapan, the executive vice chairman of AMC Networks. In its elevation, it might also stimulate funding and education and awareness. The result is Marvels of Media, an exhibition, awards ceremony and festival that opens Thursday and celebrates media-makers on the autism spectrum. Were shining a light on something that already exists and then helping ... More |
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| Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego adds Rothko, Kusama, and López acquisitions to expansive collection | | Auction devoted to British and world coins, and historical medals to be held at Dix Noonan Webb | | Walker Art Center appoints Amanda Hunt as Head of Public Engagement, Learning and Impact | 
Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1966, oil on paper mounted on canvas, 30 Ã 22in. Gift of Barbara Bloom.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego announced the acquisitions of works by Mark Rothko (1903-1970), Yayoi Kusama, and Yolanda López (1942-2021), adding to an expansive collection of 5,600 objects in all media, dating from 1950 to the present. Kusamas Dreaming Pumpkin (2012), gifted to the museum by Joan and Irwin Jacobs, will grace the lobby of the newly expanded La Jolla flagship when it opens to the public on April 9th after a $105 million renovation and expansion by world-renowned Selldorf Architects. The La Jolla building will be renamed in honor of generous donors and arts supporters Joan and Irwin Jacobs, whose gift of $20 million provided the foundation for the extensive fundraising efforts. The Museum is also pleased to acquire a work by pathbreaking artist and activist Yolanda López. Her monumental Runner: On My Own! (1977) will be on view at the MCASD Downtown campus in the ... More | | 
A notable example is a very rare and very fine copper pattern penny from the Isle of Man, dating from 1723.
LONDON.- Mayfair-based Auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb, who specialise in coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery will be holding an auction of British and World Coins, and Historical Medals on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 10am. The 770-lot sale will feature coins and medals dating from the first millennium BC to the present day and from as far afield as Thailand and Korea. Over 100 lots from the Michael Gietzelt Collection of Coins, tokens and medals of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands will be offered. A notable example is a very rare and very fine copper pattern penny from the Isle of Man, dating from 1723. This penny was originally in H.A. Parsons Collection which sold in 1954 and is estimated at £4,000-5,000. The sale will also include English Hammered coins from various properties. From the Early Anglo-Saxon Period is an extremely fine Gold Shilling or Thrymsa that dates from circa 645-70 and was found near Horsmonden ... More | | 
Amanda Hunt, 2021. Courtesy: Amanda Hunt; photograph: Ruben Diaz.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center has appointed Amanda Hunt as its new Head of Public Engagement, Learning, and Impact (PELI). She is currently the Director of Public Programs and Creative Practice at the forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and formerly the Director of Education and Public Programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Walker Executive Director Mary Ceruti comments, Amandas curatorial experience, commitment to museum education, and success in developing innovative and meaningful ways to engage audiences will be a great asset to the Walker and the communities it serves. I am thrilled to welcome her to the staff and look forward to the vision and creativity she will bring to the Walker. After a decade in California, I welcome this next chapter and the opportunities to work with the vibrant communities of the Twin ... More |
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 The Brooklyn Museum appoints new Curator of African Art and Director of Libraries and ArchivesBROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum announced two new appointments to the Curatorial Affairs team. Ernestine White-Mifetu has been appointed Sills Foundation Curator of African Art, and Abigail L. Dansiger has been appointed Director of Libraries and Archives. Both started at the Museum on March 1, 2022. Were thrilled to welcome Ernestine and Abby to the Brooklyn Museum team. Both dynamic experts in their fields, they are joining the Brooklyn Museum at an incredibly exciting time as we prepare for the building of our new permanent African Art galleries and for the Museums two hundredth anniversary, says Anne Pasternak, Shelby White and Leon Levy Director, Brooklyn Museum. In her role as Sills Foundation Curator of African Art, White-Mifetu will be instrumental in developing permanent galleries ... More  Another world record sale from Posters Auction International totals over $2.8 millionNEW YORK, NY.- Poster Auctions Internationals first sale of the year, on March 20, finished at $2,880,000. Rare Posters Auction LXXXVI proved that the poster market shows no signs of slowing down. Jack Rennert, President of PAI, said, Once again, I am humbled by the passion demonstrated by our consignors and bidders. At such a tumultuous time in the world, we could not have predicted the great success of this sale. Its clear to me that collectors are not only looking for beautiful objects to display in their homes, but investment pieces as well. As with previous sales, collectors vied for works by Alphonse Muchaespecially his lesser seen designs. The top sale from the Belle Ãpoque master was his 1902 Documents Décoratifs, an exquisite portfolio of decorative elements and poster designs that sold for $55,200 ... More  Anna Zorina Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Leah YerpeNEW YORK, NY.- Anna Zorina Gallery announced the Leah Yerpe solo exhibition, Internal Wilderness. This show is Yerpes third solo exhibition with the Gallery and features large-scale monochrome charcoal drawings alongside vibrant oil paintings. The artist masterfully approaches realism with her media of charcoal on paper or oil on board. Through her repetition of figures within a void, she creates an otherworldly image that calls on the viewer to define on their own terms. By casting inverted colors onto the figures, she further shapes a subjective experience. Created over the past two years, these works were inspired by the artists long, rigorous hikes through the Appalachian mountains outside of New York City. Over courses of 20 miles at a time, she would watch natural light shift across the exposed ancient bedrock. The ... More  Warhol prints soar past estimates at Bonhams Los Angeles saleLOS ANGELES, CA.- Grapes, a rare complete suite of six prints, by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) found great success when it more than doubled its estimate ($200,000 250,000) at Bonhams Prints & Multiples sale in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 29 with a final sale price of $462,813. With these screenprints, Warhol brings a new approach to the traditional genre of still life. Four additional Warhol prints present in the sale also sold beyond their estimates including Mick Jagger for $137,813 against an estimate of $50,000 70,000. A smashing success for the department, the sale overall achieved $4,067,781 inc. premium with a sell-through rate of 91% and sold by value rate of 99%, with many works hitting record prices including Grapes by Warhol, Lithographic water made of lines and crayon by David Hockney ($195,313; against ... More  Sam Falls now represented by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, 303 Gallery, Franco Noero, Jessica SilvermanZURICH.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber congratulates Sam Falls on his joining Jessica Silverman in San Francisco. Falls will continue to be represented by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, New York, and Vienna; 303 Gallery, New York; and Galleria Franco Noero, Torino. Sam Falls is a unique artist whose multimedia tributes to nature are not only incredibly beautiful but are portraits and records of the many places he visits, gifts that cannot be underestimated in our environmentally fragile time. It has been my privilege to work with Sam on several gallery and museum presentations since 2013, and I look forward to many new collaborations with Sam and Jessica Silverman. Eva Presenhuber Concerned with the intimacy of time, the illustration of place, and exploration of mortality, Sam Falls has created his own formal language ... More  A tap-dancing soul in spirit-world limboNEW YORK, NY.- The tap dancer Michela Marino Lerman is an outstanding jazz musician. In recent years, she has made a place for herself in jazz clubs not always hospitable to hoofers or female players. The shows that her band, Love Movement, performed at the Whitney Museum in 2019 were truly movements of love, parties overflowing with good vibes and brilliance. But for her debut at the Joyce Theater, shes trying something new: a 90-minute theatrical narrative, Once Upon a Time Called Now. Its a New Orleans tale, set in the spirit world just before Mardi Gras. Lerman is Kahina, a woman whose ancestors have interceded to give her another chance at life. Guided by the orisha Ogun (poet Orlando Watson) and a Tarot-card-wielding high priestess (vocalist Shenel Johns), she must learn to stop doubting herself and let ... More  Anna Netrebko seeks distance from Putin after losing workNEW YORK, NY.- Anna Netrebko, a Russian diva whose international career recently fell apart because of her past support of President Vladimir Putin of Russia, sought to distance herself from him Wednesday, saying they had only met a few times. Since the war started, Netrebkos performances at the Metropolitan Opera where she has sung for 20 years, becoming its reigning prima donna have been canceled indefinitely. Other leading opera houses, including in Munich and in Zurich, also scrapped upcoming performances. On Wednesday, in what seemed an attempt at orchestrating a comeback, Netrebko issued a statement distancing herself from Putin in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I am not a member of any political party nor am I allied with any leader of Russia, Netrebko said in the statement, ... More  In 'Oratorio for Living Things,' the song is youNEW YORK, NY.- At the Academy of Music, where the Philadelphia Orchestra used to play, longtime subscribers were sometimes rewarded with a chance to move from floor-level seats to raised gilded boxes at the back of the horseshoe. After my parents took that step, my mother soon regretted the change. Its true she saw the players better from above, but shed felt them better from below, where the buzz of bassoons and the blast of tubas came through the wood directly to her feet, turning symphonies into seismic events. I thought of her vibrating metatarsals and so much else about the rapture of intimate art while sitting in the wooden amphitheater housing Oratorio for Living Things, Heather Christians profoundly strange and overwhelmingly beautiful new music-theater piece at Ars Novas Greenwich ... More  Richard Lipez, who reimagined the gay detective novel, dies at 83NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Lipez, the author of a series of crime novels centered on an openly gay detective who, unlike the one-dimensional depictions common in the genre in the 1980s and 90s, is not a tortured soul or a freak but a relatable character who is content with his life, died March 16 at his home in Becket, Massachusetts. He was 83. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his husband, Joe Wheaton. Under the pseudonym Richard Stevenson, Lipez wrote 17 mysteries in the series. His protagonist, Donald Strachey, worked the underside of Albany, New York. He was named after Lytton Strachey, an early 20th-century English biographer; the name appealed to Lipez because Strachey, a gay intellectual, represented the antithesis of the stereotypical macho gumshoe. Still, Lipez, known as Dick, respected the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter and sculptor Max Ernst died April 01, 1976. Max Ernst (2 April 1891 - 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism. In this image: People look at the exhibition Beyond Painting: Max Ernst in the Würth Collection.
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